Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762677AbYFLNp3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:45:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762019AbYFLNot (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:44:49 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:63189 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762576AbYFLNos (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:44:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] futex: fix miss ordered wakeups From: Daniel Walker To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper , Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: References: <20080611204916.271608740@mvista.com> <20080611204917.523866467@mvista.com> <1213277402.16459.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:44:46 -0700 Message-Id: <1213278286.16459.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-5.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 760 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:33 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:56 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Please stop wasting everyone's time with that. > > > > It achieves correct ordering of the futex waiters inside the kernel, > > that is in fact _something_ .. > > Yeah, just something _useless_ Just because you don't use it, doesn't make it useless .. At least there's enough people asking for this that it warrants me writing it.. Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/